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PIPE HANGER.

N0. 592,506. PatentedOot. 26, 1897.

A a m IVE/755555 NTTnn STATES PATENT FFICE.

ALLAN .LBEATON, OF SOUTHINGTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE BEATON & BRADLEY COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

Pl PE-HANG ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 592,506, dated October 26, 1897. Application filed November 27,1896. Serial No. 613,509. (No model.)

To wZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALLAN J. BEATON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sou thington, in the county of Hartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pipe-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

llIy invention relates to improvements in pipe-hangers; and the objects of my improvements are simplicity and economy in construction and general convenience and efficiencyof the article.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an edge view of my pipe-hanger. Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof. Fig. 3 is an edge view of the supporting-strap with the holding-cap and holding-ring in their elevated positions. Fig. 4 is a detached edge View of the hanger-loop for encircling the pipe, and Fig. 5 is a plan view of the holding-ring. Figs. 3 and 5 are on an enlarged scale.

The supporting strap or head 6 is formed of a flat straight piece of metal, perforated at its upper end to receive a screw-eye 7 or other device by which it may be hung to a joist or any convenient part of the building. Near the lower end of this strap a cross-pin S is rigidly and permanently secured therein with its ends forming projections at both of the broad sides of said strap. Near the upper end of said strap at one edge is a hold ing-not-ch 16. Upon the body of the strap, between the screw-eye 7 and the'projections of the cross-pin 8, I place a holding-cap 9, the same being free to slide lengthwise on said strap and prevented from being wholly detached therefrom by the cross-pin at one end and the screw-eye at the other end of said strap. The holding-cap is in the ordinary form of a capped ferrule-that is to say, a ferrule struck up with a bottom or end piece and slotted to let the strap pass through it, the same as tool-handle ferrules are slotted at the end to let the shank of the tool pass through them. A holding-ring 10 is also slipped upon said strap and over the shanks of the hanger-loop, as hereinafter described.

The hanger-loop 11 is formed from a thin flexible strip or band of metal with its middle portion bent into a circular form and with the two ends of the strip turned outwardly from the circular portion to form the shanks 12. Said shanks are each provided with a longitudinal series of perforations 13, the same being of a size that will readily receive the projections of the cross-pin 8, the holes in the two series being directly opposite each other. I also provide a holding-ring the opening in which is substantially rectangular, With the middle side notches 15, as shown in Fig. 5.

To use the hanger, the supporting-strap is suspended from any proper support above the pipe to be hung. The holding-ring 10 and cap 9 are slipped upwardly on the strap to detach the hanger-loop and are held in their elevated position by slipping one side of the holding-ring into the notch 16 of the strap, as shown in Fig. 3.

The hanger-loop when detached, as shown in Fig. 4, is sprung open sufficiently to let it slip over the pipe. The shanks 12 of the hanger-loop are then brought up against the broad sides of said strap with the projections of the cross-pin entering such holes in the shanks as will bring the hanger-loop to the desired height. The holding-ring 10 is then allowed to fall over the ends of the shanks and down as far as the junction 0r angle between the shanks 12 and hanger loop 11, while the holding-cap receives the upper ends of said shanks into it, but is prevented from slipping farther down by said ends striking the end of the cap on the inside thereof, leaving the parts in the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. In these views the cross-pin is shown as in the third hole from the bottom, and it will readily be seen that the hanger-loop could have been raised higher, so as to have one of the lower holes take over the cross-pin or set lower, so as to have one of the upper holes take over said pin.

To detach the hanger, when desired, it is only necessary to slip the holding ring and cap upwardly into the holding-notch 16 and let the shanks of the hanger-loop spring apart and disengage the cross-pin. The cross-pin preferably projects a little beyond the sides of the shanks and the holding-ringis provided with notches 15 in orderto let it pass the said cross-pin and fall down to the junction of the shanks and hanger-loop. In use the strain on the hanger practically comes on a straight line from the two sides of the pipe to the point of suspension at the cross-pin, so that when the hanger is made of a thin flexible strip of metal, as described, it is liable to bend at the junction of the shanks and hangerloop and straighten out. By having the holding-ring at the said junction and the holdingcap at the top end of the shanks they are held at both ends and do not straighten out; even though made of quite thin metal.

While I have shown What I consider the best form known to me for carrying out my invention, I do not wish to limit myself to. the precise construction shown, but reserve the right to use equivalents and to make such mechanical changes as may fairly fall within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Bymy improvement the hanger is con: structed mainly of strap or band metal, and consequently at a very small cost. At the same time it is strong and eflicient as well as convenient, and easy to use.

I claim as my invention- 1 A pipe-hanger comprising a flattened supporting-strap, a hanger-loop formed'of a, thin strip of flexible material the middle portion thereof being in the form of a circular tion of said circular and straight portions of the hanger to prevent the strip from straightening out substantially as described.

2. The herein-described hanger consisting of a long flattened supporting-strap, ahingelesshanger-loop formed of thin flexible metal bent into a circular form with long projecting shanks, said shanks having a series of perforations extending over a substantial part of their length and said strap having projections for engaging said perforations, a holding-cap fitted to engage and hold the top ends of said shanks in place above the cross-pin and the holding-ring fitted to engage and hold said shanks at their lower ends below said cross-pin, substantially as described.

ALLAN J. BEATON. Witnesses:

FRANK B. BRADLEY, A. W. STIPEK. 

